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  • Seven Silly Health Mistakes Smart People Make

    Seven Silly Health Mistakes That Lots Of Smart People Make

     

    By Nurse Mark and Dr. Myatt

     

    Even Really Smart People make mistakes sometimes – here are some o fthe more common ‘Oopsies” that we see here at The Wellness Club:

    1 – Lots of smart people don’t bother to update their supplement and drug protocol annually. In fact, some go for years and years, taking the same drugs and supplements. Those drugs and supplements might have been right for them way back then when they were prescribed, and who knows – maybe they are right for them now.

    But, and this is a big “but, ” people change, and their needs change. They might need more, or less, or different altogether.

    Heck – you get your car checked over once a year (you do, don’t you!?!), if you have an investment portfolio we’ll bet you review that annually, if you are a pilot your skills are reviewed regularly – so why don’t folks do an annual health and supplement review? We don’t know, but it can be a costly mistake in terms of expensive drug prescriptions that may no longer be needed or have even become harmful, supplement protocols that could be tweaked for maximum benefit or to have supplements removed or added as necessary.

    2 – A lot of otherwise really smart people don’t bother to get updated blood tests every year. Yes, we know, nobody likes needles – but it is all over before you know it, and the information that is gained could literally be a lifesaver. Basic blood tests are inexpensive – even if you pay for them yourself – and your doctor can help you to know what they mean and to spot any irregularities or changes from last year.

    For those using hormones (even “bio-identical’ hormones or hormone precursors,) shame on you if you aren’t getting updated hormone tests each year!

    3 – Why are so many smart people “penny-wise and pound-foolish” when it comes to their supplements? We like a good bargain as much as the next fellow, but sometimes folks work just a little too hard to save a nickel. Remember, the most expensive supplement (or drug for that matter) is the one that doesn’t work!

    So you saved a few bucks on those discount vitamins at Super Bob’s Big Box Discount Emporium – but if they don’t get the job done, or are made with nasty synthetics or chemicals, you really didn’t save anything – you wasted your money on junk.

    Or, lots of folks will see their holistic doctor, get some great advice and recommendations, and then ignore that advice and buy some unproven wonder-product based on it’s marketing claims.

    Which leads us to the next item:

    4 – Lots of smart people like to take some really esoteric stuff and don’t bother to cover their bases with the “essentials” – good, solid, basic vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, and nutritional supplements like fish oil and CoQ10.

    It’s great that they use a wonderful immune-supporting formula, or take the finest of ginseng, or the latest, greatest antioxidant formula, or a super-duper bone-health product – but if they are not getting their daily basics it’s all for naught. If someone is deficient in the basic vitamins and minerals all the ginseng or calcium in the world is not going to make them healthy!

    If you want to see what an optimal daily multiple vitamin should look like, please see the label facts for Dr. Myatt’s Maxi Multi. And to see what an optimal plant-food / phytonutrient formula should look like, see Dr. Myatt’s Maxi Greens.

    Oh, and here’s a money and time-saving trick – don’t buy Dr. Myatt’s vities – print out the label facts and hop on down to your local health food store and find something just as good or better there, and probably cheaper. Really. Go ahead. Good Luck.

    Interestingly, we’ve seen a lot of people who were taking bunches of separate products, each intended to address some need or other, who were able to reduce the number of supplements they took (and reduce the cost too!) by simply covering the basics with some good, solid, daily “essentials.”

    5 – Then there are smart people who get most everything else right, but forget about the really, really basic things that can make-or-break their health: Sleep, food, water – little things that many of us take for granted, but that can turn around and bite you in the health if you don’t pay attention.

    Sleep – are you getting at least eight hours (or more!) of quality sleep each night? With no lights on to disturb your circadian rhythm? Oh, right – you are too busy and there’s just not enough time – we’ve heard all the excuses, and none of them wash. You can do without sleep for a little while, but it will exact a toll eventually – in altered hormone levels, unbalanced neurotransmitters, and more.

    No problem, you say – I can get to sleep any time I want – I just take that really great little sleeping pill my doctor prescribed for me… Um, here’s a dirty little secret for you: drug-induced sleep is not the same as “real” sleep.

    Many of the popular sleep drugs can result in somnambulism – sleep-walking – and people have been known to drive automobiles, eat uncontrollably, even commit serious crimes, all while asleep under the influence of these drugs.

    “But I gotta get some sleep – I need those drugs to make me sleep – I can’t sleep any other way!” you say. Well, that does seem to be a problem for a lot of smart and successful and wealthy people like, oh, say, Michael Jackson… and how’s that working for him?

    Insomnia can be corrected – primary insomnia (“can’t fall asleep”), secondary insomnia (wide awake in the “wee hours”), each responds well to some basic holistic sleuthing and natural remedies. A good naturopathic doctor can help – no spooky drugs required.

    Food – sure, you get plenty to eat, but is it clean, wholesome food? Or is it meat that is filled with antibiotics and growth hormones from the farm, or laced with chemicals and preservatives. Here’s a nasty little secret about preservatives: they work by halting cellular respiration. They stop the cells of the meat from using oxygen and they can do the same for your cells. And those hormones? Do we really think it is a good thing to be dosing ourselves with unknown amounts of hormones with each forkful? Or, howzabout those farm-raised fish, swimming through their own excrement? Mmmm… tasty!

    And your vegetables – were they sprayed with pesticides or chemically treated to prevent spoiling? A lot of that stuff just doesn’t wash off…

    It is well worth spending a little extra for organic produce, free-range eggs and poultry, grass-fed hormone-and-antibiotic-free meats and dairy products and the like wherever possible. But beware: with the increase in demand for these foods, the scammers have been busy. We often see products with phrases like “All Natural” and “Healthy Choice” emblazoned on them that are anything but natural or healthy. Get into the habit of actually reading the nutrition facts box and the fine print – you’ll be amazed at what some manufacturers will try to slip past your notice!

    Now, your water. Yep, plain ol’ water. We take it for granted – but it is vital to life and unfortunately it is often not as healthy and pure as it should be. Many municipal water supplies contain massive amounts of chlorine, or bacteria, or both. Fluoride is still a fact of life in many water supplies despite it’s toxicity. And our water supplies are increasingly tainted with industrial pollutants and even you neighbor’s drugs – after they have passed through your neighbor that is…

    But a lot of smart people buy bottled water to drink (which is often just municipal water put into plastic bottles) or use a water filter for their drinking water (which is probably better than buying bottled water…) So? What about the water (and other chemicals) that they absorb through their body’s largest organ, the skin? Yep, there they are, enjoying that nice, hot  shower with the pores of their skin wide open and soaking up all that chlorine and fluoride and who-knows-what-else…

    A whole-house water filtration system is a great solution, but can be expensive. A shower-head water filter is a lot more economical, and a good drinking water filter in the kitchen will likely not break the bank either. And don’t forget the cooking water! Aquasana is a water filter company that we are familiar with and recommend.

    6 – It seems like a lot of otherwise really smart people (like doctors!) fall for the Big Pharma promise of instant symptom relief instead of thinking their problems through and addressing the cause of the problem. Got a headache? Do you really believe that it’s because you have an Aspirin or Tylenol deficiency? Got high blood pressure? Are you sure that it’s a medicine deficiency? Are you sure that “hyperglycemia” is an Actos (diabetes drug) deficiency?

    We were not born with all these drugs in our body keeping is in normal health – and we do not become deficient in drugs as we age.

    We do become deficient in vitamins and other nutrients when our diet is not optimal, and stress and overweight and even wear and tear can cause our body’s delicate chemical balances to be thrown off – but these are things that can usually be corrected with diet and careful supplementation of things that nourish the body. There is usually no need to hammer on the body’s systems with the brute force of drugs.

    7 – One more mistake that smart people make frequently, probably because they really are smart and they are accustomed to researching and finding information on their own, is that they get their medical advice from a variety of sources.

    Unfortunately, those sources are usually not trained in medicine – they are the proverbial “butcher, baker, and candlestick-maker” who, while experts in their own fields, and filled with anecdotal stories of the miraculous cure experienced by the next-door neighbor to their Aunt Effie’s daughter-in-law, they really have little more to offer than “try XXX – it really helped my friend, and he had something kinda like you do…”

    When you need tax advice do you consult your car mechanic? When you need to diagnose a car problem do you ask your accountant? When you need someone to look after your books do you call on a carpenter? No? Well then, why would you get and follow medical advice from any of those people? Especially when there are highly trained medical people available who would be happy to help you…

    Or, better yet, there are some really smart people who actually go out and earn themselves a medical degree – from the “University of Google.” They plug their complaint into the Google search engine, push the button, and Voila! – instant education!

    Try using the search term “hypertension” – we just did and Google gave “About 65,500,000 results”. For the math challenged, that is sixty-five and a half million results. Everything from scholarly articles from the National Institutes for Health (N.I.H.) to “advertorials” promoting Viagra for hypertension in women. Yikes! How is a person to know what is real and what is hype?

    Then there are the really, really, really smart people:

    These are the people who recognize that they are very smart in whatever field of endeavor they are really smart in, and they know that there is not enough time in a day for them to become really smart in every other subject – especially one as complicated as medicine. These are the people who are smart enough to know that there are other people who are really smart at medicine (though they might not know much about tax law or hotel management) and they seek out those smart medical people when they need medical advice.

    They carefully and faithfully follow the advice that they receive – though there is always some give-and-take, and much discussion about goals and strategies. After all, really smart people want to be actively involved in they medical care and demand to be a part of the decision-making process for their health regimens and strategies.

    Those are the people we like the best, here at The Wellness Club!

  • Earwax: Do It Yourself Removal Tips

    How to remove earwax:

     

    By Nurse Mark

     

    Many people ask about ear wax removal – probably because conventional medicine has worked so hard to make this simple personal care task into a specialty procedure requiring multiple visits to a clinic. It’s really not all that hard if you follow a few simple rules.

    First, remember that your ears are what we used to call in the army “a single-issue item.” If you damage them doing something foolish you will not likely get a second chance – so be careful and think before you put anything in there that might make your problems worse.

    Don’t try to remove earwax if you have ear pain or a discharge that looks different than earwax, if you think you have a ruptured eardrum, if you have had ear surgery, or if you have tubes (a.k.a. “grommets”) in your ears. Remember, the only thing that separates the big bad world from your delicate and fragile inner ear machinery is your eardrum.

    OK – so you are pretty sure you have an earful of wax. You might have a mild earache or feeling of fullness in the affected ear, you might be hearing ear noise (tinnitus or “ringing” in the ear) or more likely you are experiencing some decreased or muffled hearing in the affected ear. Maybe you even got a cotton swab (Q-Tip) or rolled up tissue and rummaged around in there trying to clean it out and made it worse. (Remember what I said about “a one-issue item”?)

    You can go running in to your local urgent care clinic or your doctor for help, or you can look after this yourself – remember, this is not rocket science or brain surgery, and mankind has been successfully dealing with earwax for as long as there have been ears.

    Remember – earwax is normal. Some folks have more, some have less, but everybody makes it. It normally looks after itself and falls out of the ear all on it’s own – but sometimes it needs a bit of help.

    First things first: are you drinking enough pure water? If you are dehydrated, even a little bit, your ear wax can become drier, harder, and stickier too.

    So, you have probably tried letting the warm water run into your ear while you showered or washed your hair – this is often all the care that is needed for most folks and their ear wax washes out all by itself.

    But that didn’t work for you, so it’s time to get serious. We’ll work at this in steps.

    The first step is to simply soften and loosen the earwax. You can do this with a few drops of a light oil. Remember, anything you put on the largest organ of your body, your skin, you will absorb into your body in some amount – so don’t use anything that you would not be willing to eat. Olive oil is a fine choice for this task.

    Warm a little bit of oil to body temperature and allow a few drops of it to run into your ear canal. This task will be made much easier if you have someone to help – you can lay on your side and let your friend and gravity do the work – but it can be done by one person alone too.

    That’s it – just run a few drops in and give it some time. Overnight is perfect. Please don’t plug your ear with anything to try to “keep the oil in.” The whole idea is for the oil and the softened wax to come out – not stay in. Put in a few drops of oil at bedtime, go to sleep on your side to help the oil stay in for a while, and usually by morning the oil and the wax will be gone. You might want to cover your pillow with an old towel to keep it clean.

    Well alright, so that didn’t work. On to the next step.

    Make up a mixture of hydrogen peroxide mixed with an equal amount of room-temperature water. Place a few drops of this, warmed to body temperature, in the ear twice a day for several days. Be sure to warm the fluid because cold fluid can cause pain and dizziness. You won’t make that mistake twice!

    Once the wax is loose and soft, all that is usually needed to remove it from the ear canal is a gentle, warm shower.

    Direct the water into the ear, then tip your head to let the water and earwax drain out.

    If all that doesn’t work, you can try a non-prescription wax softener (which is usually just oil) followed by gentle flushing with an ear syringe each night for a week or two. Make sure the flushing solution is body temperature. Cool or hot fluids in the ear can cause dizziness.

    You can find ear syringes or irrigation bulbs at any pharmacy – or just look around your home: any squeeze bottle that will allow you to squirt a narrow stream of water will work – make sure to clean it well before use. Be gentle and be patient – it may take a few irrigations to get stuff loosened up. You are not trying to “blast” it out, but just gently flush the ear canal.

    Some don’ts:

    Don’t use cotton swabs, bobby pins, toothpicks, pencils, wadded up napkins or other objects to clean the ear. Besides being at risk for damaging something, usually all these things do is drive the wax in deeper.

    Don’t use a dental irrigation device, like a “Water Pik”, to remove earwax. The force of the water can injure the ear canal and rupture the eardrum. Besides, you really won’t enjoy the way that feels – the ear canal and eardrum are sensitive!

    I don’t recommend ear candles. I have seen no proven benefit in the removal of earwax with them and they can cause serious injury. (Say what?!? An open flame beside my head? And burning hot wax dripping? Are you kidding?) If you use them and like them, fine – but I won’t recommend them.

    Some things to watch for during home treatment:

    If you follow these simple instructions and heed the few common-sense cautions here then removing your earwax build-up should be easy and uneventful. Mostly what you’ll have to deal with are stains on your pillow from the oil and earwax that will come out overnight. A towel to cover the pillow helps. Most of the cleaning will occur during your daily shower – you do have a water filter on your shower, right?

    Just FYI, we are very impressed with the products and service offered by Aquasana – they can provide you with a highly effective showerhead filter or a whole-house system.

    Some people’s ear canals are more difficult to get drops into (and wax out of) than others. Gently grasping the ear and pulling it up and back a bit can help to straighten the ear canal. The normal ear canal does not go straight in – it angles a bit forward toward the nose.

    If other symptoms develop, such as ear pain, hearing loss, ringing in the ears, dizziness, severe itching, or bad-smelling discharge from the ear it is time to get some help.

  • But I Only Use Organic Natural Sugars!

    What About The “Good Sugars?”

     

    By Nurse Mark

     

    We recently wrote about some of the ways that food makers try to fool consumers into believing that their products are “low carb” when they are really nothing of the sort. In Low Carb Lies Dr. Myatt explains how a carbohydrate is a carbohydrate – no matter what sort of creative math is used to make it look otherwise.

    At The Wellness Club we are constantly receiving questions from folks who want to know what we think of their pet sugar – since after all, it is being described on the label as being “organic” or “all-natural” or “wholesome” and we all know that anything described by these terms must be good for you, right?

    Not really. Sugar is sugar is sugar – no matter what fancy name it is given in order to sell it.

    Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who fall for these labeling gimmicks and are putting their health (and their families health – especially their kids) at risk. Most parents know that allowing their child to pour sugar on breakfast cereal is a bad idea that usually results in a hyperactive kid – so is “all-natural organic dehydrated cane juice” a healthy alternative? Nope, it’s just sugar by a fancy moniker and it will have those kids bouncing off the walls just like sugar by any other name!

    The people who really suffer from this deception are those whose very lives may depend on their avoiding sugar. Think cancer – here is an excerpt from a letter we recently received:

     

    “You advise that consumption of sugar is a no-no for someone with cancer. I eat a lot of fruit which of course is high in sugar, I know there are different types of sugar: glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, etc, so my question is which can I consume without feeding the cancer?”

     

    Whew! This is a really good question – and far more complicated than it might seem at first blush.

    That’s right – we do caution our cancer patients that sugars are a no-no.

    This is because cancer cells are generally ill-equipped to get their energy from anything other than monosacchrides (simple sugars such as glucose, fructose, and galactose).

    Most cancer cells do not do well with ketones, which the rest of the body considers to be a fine energy source. Without energy, the cancer cells starve – they may cease to grow and may become more vulnerable to the body’s own healthy immune responses which “clean up” aberrant and damaged cells.

    On the other hand, providing cancer cells with a simple, ready energy source such as fructose, glucose, galactose or mannose is like throwing gasoline on a fire – and in our experience it almost always results in an explosive growth of cancers.

    Sugars are simple carbohydrates.

    The “sacchride” is the basic unit, and sugars include monosaccharides, disaccharides, trisaccharides and the oligosaccharides.

    In practical terms, most carbohydrates are converted by our bodies to glucose, fructose, or galactose. Monosaccharides include fructose, glucose, galactose and mannose. Disaccharides are found mostly as sucrose (cane or beet sugar), lactose (milk sugar) and maltose.

    So, in the “real world” of reading “Nutrition Facts Box” labels, which sugars are OK? The brief answer is “NONE OF THEM!”

    The longer answer is more complicated – there are certain “sugars” and “sugar alcohols” that are not readily absorbed by the body and generally do not get used by the body as an energy source. These are often used in “low carb” products.

    Other forms of sugars function as insoluble fiber and are found in good, low carb fiber supplements.

    Interestingly, even these forms of sugars, though not useable for energy, are still carbohydrates and contribute to the carbohydrate count on the label. This is where the “Effective Carbohydrates” calculations come into play – but that is an article for another HealthBeat!

    What should you be watching for when you look at “Nutrition Facts Box” labels?

    The first clue is the carbohydrate count. Next, look for “sugars” – if they are present they’ll be listed. Don’t be fooled by food manufacturers who may try to bamboozle or impress you by listing their sweeteners by different names – often trying to make them sound “natural” or “organic.”

    Some of these may include:

    • cane molasses
    • cane juice
    • cassava
    • Demerara
    • dextrose
    • d-glucose
    • Florida Crystals
    • Jaggery
    • Muscovado
    • Panela (or pilloncillo)
    • Steen’s cane syrup
    • Sucanat
    • Turbinado sugar
    • sugar beet molasses and sugar beet syrup
    • Jallab
    • Pekmez
    • Amazake
    • barley malt syrup
    • brown rice syrup
    • corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup
    • malt
    • Mizuame
    • agave syrup
    • birch syrup
    • maple sugar and maple syrup
    • palm sugar
    • honey
    • sweet sorghum and sorghum syrup
    • natural brown sugar
    • molasses
    • sago

    That’s quite a list, and many of those sound very healthy indeed – but in truth they are all just sugar by another name.

    The starches – corn starch, tapioca starch, rice, wheat, potato, arrowroot and many more – are also metabolized promptly into sugars, so watch for these as well!

    For those who don’t already know, Dr. Myatt’s Super Fast Diet is the premier anti-cancer, health-restorative, weight-loss diet available today.

  • Candida: A Diagnosis Often Missed, Sometimes Overdiagnosed.

    Candida: A Diagnosis Often Missed, Sometimes Overdiagnosed

     

    A recent question to the Wellness Club went as follows:

     

    Hi Dr.Myatt,
    I just wanted to know whether stool test is enough to find out whether I have candida overgrowth because I seem to be suffering from most of the symptoms.
    Thank you.

     

    We get a lot of questions like this – and unfortunately, health is rarely so simple (despite what Big Pharma and Big Medicine would like you to believe!). Sure, there are tests – but how to know which test, and then how to know what to make of the results of the test? This is tough enough for many doctors – and almost impossible for most laypersons.

    Even though your local shopping mall may have almost as many walk-in whole-body CAT scan offices as they do tanning salons, our medical diagnostics have not yet evolved to the level of the “Medical Tricorder” wielded by the famous Dr. “Bones” McCoy in the old Star Trek TV Series. “Bones” would wave this marvelous warbling testing gadget over his patient and it would give him an instant and accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.

    Real life in today’s world is not so easy – too bad – and today’s physician must be skilled in interpreting and helping patients to make sense of test results.

    Dr. Myatt has this advise for Rimsha:

    Hi Rimsha:

    A person can have a yeast overgrowth that might not show up on just a stool test.

    For a more complete look, I’d recommend both a stool yeast test AND a Candida antibody test:

    Candida stool test:
    http://drmyattswellnessclub.com/medicaltests.htm#CANDIDA

    Candida antibodies test:
    http://drmyattswellnessclub.com/medicaltests.htm#CANDIDA ANTIBODIES

    Low-level overgrowth of Candida yeast species can cause a wide variety of health problems, but yeast may not be found in a stool specimen. This is because the yeast may have invaded elsewhere in the body, such as in the urinary tract, sinus passages, vagina or elsewhere.

    The Candida antibodies test uses a drop of blood to evaluate for an immune system reaction to Candida. It assesses IgG, IgA, IgM immunoglobulins to yeast as well as Candida antigen. A positive finding indicates past or present Candida infection and may allow Candida yeast reactions to be found when stool and vaginal specimens are negative or inconclusive.

    If these two tests don’t point to a yeast overgrowth (as they may not), then other things need to be looked at. Learn more here http://drmyattswellnessclub.com/candidiasis.htm but here’s the “short course.”

    Candidiasis: The Elusive Diagnosis

    The diagnosis of Candidiasis is often overlooked in conventional medicine.

    Many doctors say they “Don’t believe in Candidiasis,” even though there is ample scientific evidence to document the condition. It is difficult to say exactly why this condition is ignored by conventional medicine in spite of the vast scientific evidence, but I offer you my theories for such conventional medical ignorance:

    • The symptoms of Candidiasis are widespread and can mimic many other diseases. There is no definitive lab test that confirms the disease. This makes correct diagnosis difficult.
    • Some “holistic” practitioners diagnose everything as Candidiasis, thereby missing other important diagnoses. This has given the problem of Candidiasis a “pop diagnosis” reputation among many physicians. As a result, non-holistic doctors are then reluctant to recognize true cases of Candidiasis.
    • One of the primary causes of Candidiasis is the overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics, steroids, birth control pills and other drugs. To acknowledge Candidiasis as a disease is to also acknowledge a problem often caused by drugs!

    Hope this helps!
    In health,
    Dr. Myatt

  • Monolaurin: Miracle for the Immune System?

    Could This Be The Newest Breakthrough For Improving Immunity?

     

    By Nurse Mark

     

    Hardly a day goes by without breathless news reports telling us in glowing terms about the latest breakthrough in the fight against disease or against ageing. We know; we get them all – in our email, in magazines, in newsletters.

    One major glossy “natural health” magazine is a perfect example – each month it presents us with a plethora of articles, all describing the newest medical and scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, each of these articles is invariably followed by multi-page advertisements for whatever “breakthrough” supplement the preceding article discussed…

    We can understand the interest that these articles generate – they certainly sound marvelously scientific and well-researched, and the reader can hardly help but to want to try the new miracle product.

    Fortunately, many of our readers get a “sober second opinion” before investing their hard-earned money in the “Break-Through du Jour” – they ask Doctor Myatt.

    David recently wrote to ask about a substance being touted to improve immunity:

     

    Subject: monolaurin
    Message: Wondering if you have any thoughts on the supplement monolaurin especially Lauricidin (brand) vis immune function? 
    Thank you

     

    Dr. Myatt offered this information to David:

     

    Hi David:

    Monolaurin (lauric acid) is a fatty acid found in coconut and human milk.

    It has antimicrobial properties in vitro (test tube). It is currently used as a food preservative.

    I can find no credible or significant human studies to show that it works in vivo (in people) the same way it works in a test tube or outside the body. I also find no proof that it has any positive effect on the immune system.

    There are many substances that are far more well-researched to improve immunity. There are also many substances better proven for their anti-microbial effects.

    Therefor, I do not yet use this substance in clinical practice and reserve judgement until I see some good studies which confirm its efficacy.

    Hope this helps!
    In Health,
    Dr. Myatt

     

    So, there we have it: Another “breakthrough” waiting to be actually proven to be as wonderful as the advertising copy that has been written to sell it.

    That is not to say that lauric acid is without merit – it is found also in Coconut Oil which has many proven health benefits, including immune system activation from the medium chain triglycerides (MTC’s) found in it.

    Dr. Myatt does not believe that the “magic” is all about the concentrated lauric acid that is being marketed as a supplement though – like many herbs and supplements, the “magic” is in the synergy of the many other additional components found in coconut oil.

    Isolating and concentrating the lauric acid appears (for now) to be little more than an attempt to take a page from the Big Pharma Playbook – creating something new, not really found in nature, and,most importantly, not available anywhere else. Also from the Big Pharma Playbook is the marketing which suggests it to be a “one-pill solution” for any number of health concerns – including immunity.

    Dr. Myatt does believe that Coconut Oil is an important addition to the diet, and she has done the research to back up that belief. She uses it herself for cooking and in recipes and offers it to her patients and customers – you can learn more about Coconut Oil here.

    Anyone interested in immune system support and immune enhancement would do well to check into Dr. Myatt’s Immune Support –  a daily immune-supporting supplement with scientifically researched and proven ingredients.

    Did you know that Dr. Myatt makes a bold – some say crazy – guarantee to those who use her Immune Support and Maxi Multi Daily Optimal Dose Multiple Vitamins? She actually guarantees (money-back!) that folks faithfully taking both those supplements won’t get the flu!

    Learn more about Immune Support and it’s fully medically and scientifically referenced benefits here.

    Learn more about Dr. Myatt’s Crazy “No Flu For You” Guarantee here.

    Learn more about Maxi Multi Daily Optimal Dose Multiple Vitamins here.